Roughly subrectangular in shape and measuring about sixteen metres north to south and twelve metres east to west at its widest, it is large enough to attract attention but ambiguous enough to resist easy interpretation. Trees have grown up along its western and north-western sides, and three large boulders mark its southern edge with a deliberateness that suggests intention, though whose intention, and when, remains unclear.

The mound carries an archaeological listing, but the designation comes with an honest caveat: it may simply be a field-clearance cairn of relatively modern origin. Field-clearance cairns are exactly what they sound like, accumulations of stones gathered from surrounding land to make fields more workable, piled up at the margins and left. Farmers across Ireland built them over centuries, and many have since been colonised by scrub and trees, acquiring a presence that reads as older than it is. The three boulders along the southern side are the detail that introduces some doubt. Deliberate boulder settings do appear in prehistoric contexts, and their presence here is enough to keep the question open rather than settled.